Greetings, Bookwyrms! Our theme for 2021 will be encountering the divine around the world. We will be reading books that feature gods and goddesses from various traditions and discussing how …
Happy New Year!
We did it! We got through one of the weirdest years in our collective lives. I am happy we could do it together through Church of the Earth. Things were …
Winter, a poem
Deafening white particles lay upon the ground like a blanket. Consistent silencing atmosphere huddles and weighs upon the Earth. Harnessing it’s collective, cool energy, creates a mass of pieces each completing the others.
The breath of snow awakens…
Winter Hat and Glove Drive
The Church of the Earth is sponsoring a Hat and Glove drive for Healing Transitions, a fully donation supported treatment facility in downtown Raleigh for men and women who are …
Late 2020 Quarter Calls
Spirits of the East, Spirits of Air – you who are with us in leaves blown across the sky – please teach us clarity even when we are distracted and …
Writing a Short, yet Compelling Article
One way to write a short, yet compelling article is to use basic essay format, keep it focused and make it personal. Use the essay format because it works, giving you a framework that makes it much easier to fill that blank page. Keep it focused so you can fully address a subject in a useful way. And finally, make it personal so it will be unique out on the stormy sea of cloned content and blatant plagiarism that we call the internet.
Tell a Story in Earth Tones
You are creative, and others connect with what you have to say. If this is you, we need your help. If it’s not you, I argue that you are wrong. …
In Memory of This Night
Do not judge too harshly the flinch beneath your welcoming embrace. I have waded the deep drifts of unrelenting crisis, dripped the icy residue of rejection all over the carpet …
Dirt Lasagna, Delicious (If You’re a Tomato)
… I actually snuck out on a foggy morning before sunrise and grabbed bags of leaves my neighbors had conveniently put into lawn bags for me… I mean, the town … to cart away. Organic Gold! …
Minecraft, A Place to Meet Face to Face
As a way to (sort of) meet face-to-face in a virtual world, we are trying an experiment with a multiplayer sandbox game, Minecraft. We have a private (whitelisted) world where …